Learning Street @ Swinburne University

Play, Discover, Connect - a playful yet educational response to a design brief

The physical brief from the University was to simply connect the main entrance, (a junction of the Main lobby and the Student Recruitment Centre) to the Seminar rooms, Student lounge, Lecture Theatre and future Atrium -  and to furnish this link with spaces for waiting, tutorials and discussions.

Axonometric of the design response

Lines and colours, the ordered and the peculiar, views inwards and out all add to the experience of moving through the ‘Street”

Our response was to do so by adding a series of ordered and distorted forms, of varying colours and textures, with inward and outward views – a street through an invented urban-scape of spaces loosely strung along the journey. The intention is for the users to pause, to meet, to have conversations with other ‘lingerers’ who have perched at the ‘landmarks’, ‘nodes’, and ‘intersections’ in this vibrant installation that one can occupy and colonise.

Ceilings morph into walls, which re-arrange themselves to frame activities

The ‘landmarks’, ‘nodes’, and ‘intersections’ encourage users to colonise spaces for individual use

 It reinforces the main objective of the university which is to educate, and for the students to learn – and to learn is to enter into a relationship with the space, with your colleagues, and also with total strangers that you meet along this Learning Street.

 

PROJECT GALLERY

 
  • Architect : PDC Design Group
    Client : Swinburne University
    Project Location : Kuching | Sarawak
    Year : 2020

  • M&E Engineer : Perunding CH Engineering
    Quantity Surveyor : PUBM Quantity Surveyors
    Contractor : Limpahan Sebati
    Design Team : Lai Yun Heong | Jong Pik Sien | Darry Chung | Crystal Sim | Perry Bong | Lai Ka Jing
    Photography : PDC Design Group


 
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